Office of the Medical Examiner
Dr Robert L. Yeager Health Complex
50 Sanatorium Road,
Pomona, NY 10970
(845) 364-2826

Services Investigator Education Reporting Preventative

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It is the Medical Examiner's responsibility to determining the manner and cause of death, in the interests of justice, for the protection of the citizens and to provide answers for the health and welfare of the living. Their duties encompass every conceivable type of homicide, suicide, accidental death, drug death, poisoning, suspicious death, etc. 

The responsibility of the forensic pathologist is in both criminal and civil proceedings regarding time of death, pain and suffering, bullet trajectories, wounds, determining pre-mortem versus postmortem wounds, post-mortem movement of a body from another location, instrument type consistent with a particular injury as well as a multitude of other issues.